6 5 61 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $16.95.) A British boy finds his fortune attending a school for witchcraft.

7 7 5 SICK PUPPY, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $25.) Depraved people (corrupt politicians, eco-terrorists, a hooker who caters only to Republicans) are on the loose in Florida.

8 8 4 THE ATTORNEY, by Steve Martini. (Putnam, $25.95.) A lawyer represents an elderly man who, after winning a multimillion-dollar state lottery, is accused of sexual abuse by his drug addict daughter.

9 6 6 FALSE MEMORY, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $26.95.) A woman and her husband scour the past for clues after she is gripped by an inexplicable fear of her own image.

10 11 12 TIMELINE, by Michael Crichton. (Knopf, $26.95.) Using the latest computer technology, a group of historians travels back to 14th-century feudal France.

11 9 9 ATLANTIS FOUND, by Clive Cussler. (Putnam, $26.95.) Dirk Pitt leads a team coping with an ancient maritime wreck that even now could destroy the earth.

12 12 4 THE CAT WHO ROBBED A BANK, by Lilian Jackson Braun. (Putnam, $23.95.) Jim Qwilleran and his two cats investigate the murder of an estate jewelry dealer.

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9 19 *FAITH OF MY FATHERS, by John McCain with Mark Salter. (Random House, $25.) The United States senator (and former P.O.W.) remembers his life in the Navy and that of his father and grandfather. (+)

10 8 5 A VAST CONSPIRACY, by Jeffrey Toobin. (Random House, $25.95.) A journalist's account of the sex scandal that led to the impeachment of President Clinton.

11 12 20 WHEN PRIDE STILL MATTERED, by David Maraniss. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) The life of the football coach Vince Lombardi.

12 9 6 *HELL TO PAY, by Barbara Olson. (Regnery, $27.95.) A critical account of the life and career of Hillary Rodham Clinton by a former federal prosecutor. (+)

13 11 11 THE NEW NEW THING, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $25.95.) The story of Jim Clark, a technical and financial pioneer in the computer world. (+)

14 10 16 GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, by Dava Sobel. (Walker, $27.) The life and trials of Galileo Galilei, as seen through the letters of his cloistered, illegitimate daughter.

4 5 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF IN LOVE, by Richard Carlson and Kristine Carlson. (Hyperion, $15.95.) Ways to maintain good personal relationships.

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Feb. 5, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+)indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available from The New York Times on the Web: www.nytimes.com/books.

And Bear in Mind

(Editors' choices of other recent books of particular interest)

ABOUT TOWN: The New Yorker and the World It Made, by Ben Yagoda. (Scribner, $30.) A comprehensive history that salutes the sustained brilliance of The New Yorker's editors and writers over many years without losing sight of the movements and writers the magazine ignored.

THE DRESS LODGER, by Sheri Holman. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) This historical novel, deep in its research and vivid in its imagination, links a 15-year-old prostitute, a surgeon and a journalist in the darker byways of the Industrial Revolution in provincial England in 1831.

IN SIBERIA, by Colin Thubron. (HarperCollins, $26.) The sensitive and observant author of two travel books on the former Soviet Union explores a strong candidate for worst place on earth, both for its natural gifts and for human improvements.

LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR: The New Yorker's Harold Ross, edited by Thomas Kunkel. (Modern Library, $26.95.) Selections from Ross's abundant correspondence by his biographer, calculated to dispel the notion that The New Yorker's founding editor was a lucky bumpkin.

THE MISSING WORLD, by Margot Livesey. (Knopf, $23.) This vigorous, intelligent novel (the author's third) pits a woman with amnesia against a lover eager to exploit the handicap; she doesn't remember rejecting him or the reasons she did it, but she figures him out again.

THE MYSTERIES WITHIN: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths, by Sherwin B. Nuland. (Simon & Schuster, $24.) A surgeon and scholar of medical history urbanely reviews the expansion of medical knowledge since Hippocrates, Galen and Aristotle; his heroes are the experimental scientists of the 17th century.

ON THE REZ, by Ian Frazier. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Close observation and a keen sense for piquant juxtapositions yield an enlarged view of humanity in this report from a region that has inspired acres of cliche and condescension in the past, the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

SCANDALMONGER, by William Safire. (Simon & Schuster, $27.) The title character of this skillful, solidly grounded historical novel is an odious journalist who gets the sexual goods on both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

SCAR VEGAS: And Other Stories, by Tom Paine. (Harcourt, $22.) A first collection of refreshingly adventure-filled short stories, all concerned with the way huge geopolitical forces can change the texture of small individual lives in distant places.

SIMPLE STORIES, by Ingo Schulze. (Knopf, $25.) A baroquely expansive comic novel, the author's first, that deals with stodgy, provincial East Germans challenged to reinvent themselves by the collapse of civilization as they knew it.

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